Seven weeks ago, an amazingly prescient journalist posed this question in print at the top of his column: “Will Disney and Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringlego after Councilwoman Lorri Galloway?”

While Pringle was noncommittal and Disney didn’t talk, in this columnist’s mind it was only a matter of when the Disney-Pringle alliance would make its presence known in the City Council race. The columnist posed it as a question only to cover to his butt.

The question was definitively answered last week, when Pringle formally announced he would back Galloway’s chief opponent,Gail Eastman.

And the week before that it was revealed that Disney gave $25,000 to a political action committee formed specifically in the hope of “electing Council Members who support Mayor Pringle’s agenda.” So far, that committee has reported spending about $6,000 on slate mailers supporting Eastman.

Why would Disney/Pringle go after Galloway? Well, she did lead the effort to build affordable housing for resort workers in an area Disney/Pringle wanted to see tourist-friendly development. That was a big knockdown fight – but Galloway believes that’s not the main reason she’s now a target. After all, Disney ultimately got what it wanted.

Galloway is now telling me (yes, that prescient columnist was me all along!) that Disney now wants to build two fourstar hotels next to Disneyland and wants Anaheim taxpayers to give the company a $120 million tax break to make it happen.

Galloway, as Disney might expect, says she won’t vote for it. Disney, her theory goes, has only Pringle and Harry Sidhuas secure votes and needs a third vote. (Councilman Bob Hernandezisn’t going to vote for it either, but he’s not up for reelection. Councilwoman Lucille Kringowns a business in the area and can’t vote on it.) So, the theory goes, Disney needs Eastman to win.

The two hotels, with a total of nearly 900 rooms, have been discussed since spring. And Disney was reported then to be talking with two hotel developers about partnering.

So why does Galloway believe those discussions have turned into a deal, and that it involves $120 million in taxpayer money? Because, she says, she met with the two hotel developers last month and they told her “absolutely … that it was Disney” they were partnering with. “I don’t remember if they said Disney had signed, but they had agreed.”

Galloway is fuming that the developers tried to hit up the city for $120 million, which would come in the form of a half reduction in hotel bed tax over 20 years. The sweetener is needed to make the deal pencil out, she said she was told.

“Why would we give a multibilliondollar corporation $120 million?” Galloway asked me. I admit, I didn’t have a good answer.

“This is very much like the $90 million Anaheim paid for (Disneyland’s) parking structure,” she said. “This is very much like the things that got this country in trouble – corporate welfare.”

So I called Disney, Pringle and the developers. As of my official 4:18 p.m. deadline Tuesday, only Disney had returned my call.

The situation is as it was in the spring, spokeswoman Suzi Browntold me. “Nothing has been signed.” As for the $120 million, Brown said, “It’s nothing we’re involved in. If those (discussions) are going on, it’s between the city and hotel owner(s).” Disney did donate to the pro-Pringle PAC, but so did many other businesses in the city, she noted.

She is correct. In addition to Disney’s $25,000, trash czar/developer Bill Taorminagave $25,000, and the following developers each gave $10,000: Makar (Anaheim Hilton), Related Cos., Advanced Development and Brookfield Olive.

In all, this PAC-for-Pringlevision fundraiser on Sept. 23 at the House of Blues grossed $144,000 in donations, at least $70,000 of which appears to have gone for overhead to throw the gala.

But don’t cry too much for Galloway. She is placing first or second in every poll I’ve heard of, has spent about $90,000 so far campaigning, and is getting god knows how much in independent expenditures from unions and others. Odds are, the hotel developers still won’t have a third vote after Nov. 4.